CHAPTER 1
spinsters
How could we have guessed as we sat there - two middle aged spinsters and an old man - that in place of memories we were about to be given adventure such as we had never dreamed of? definition - a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
How could we have guessed as we sat there - two middle aged unmarried women and an old man - that in place of memories we were about to be given adventure such as we had never dreamed of?
woebegone
I remembered the day six or seven years earlier when he had first come into the shop, so ragged and woebegone that I had assumed that he was one of the beggars who had the Beje marked as a sure meal.
definition - beset with woe; affected by woe, esp. in appearance. I remembered the day six or seven years earlier when he had first come into the shop, so ragged and beset with woe that I had assumed that he was one of the beggars who had the Beje marked as a sure meal.
itinerant
...the itinerant clock mender who trudged on foot throughout the land...
definition - traveling from place to place, esp. on a circuit, as a minister (ministering), judge, or sales person. ...the ministering clock mender who trudged on foot throughout the land...
threshold
...and was wheeling it over the threshold when Betsie's voice reached me, soft but firm.
definition - the entrance to a house or building.
...and was wheeling it over the entrance of the house when Betsie's voice reached me, soft but firm.
starched
...a block of identical attached houses with white curtains and potted plants in the windows.
definition - a commercial preparation of this substance used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering.
...a block of identical attached houses with white, stiffened curtains and potted plants in the windows.
CHAPTER 2
reverently
Betsie lifted it reverently from the box and held it to the patch of light that... definition - feeling, exhibiting, or characterized by reverence; deeply respectful. Betsie lifted it respectfully from the box and held it to the patch of light that...
hereafter
Tante Jans believed that our welfare in the hereafter depended on how much we could accomplish here on earth. definition - after this in time or order; at some future time; farther along, afterlife. Tante Jans believed that our welfare in the afterlife depended on how much we could accomplish here on earth.
partitioned
For sleep she partitioned off a cubicle from her writing room just large enough to hold a bed. definition - an interior wall or barrier dividing a room, area of a building, enclosure, etc., into separate areas. For sleep she separated off a cubicle from her writing room just large enough to hold a bed.
perpetual
Tante Bep, with her perpetual, disapproving scowl, was the oldest of the aunts and the one we children liked least. definition - continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
Tante Bep, with her everlasting, disapproving scowl, was the oldest of the aunts and the one we children liked least.
remonstrated
"And yet, Jans," Father remonstrated gently, "medicine has prolonged many a life." definition - to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval. "And yet, Jans," Father remonstrated gently, "medicine has prolonged many a life."
Is this changed?
CHAPTER 3 gallstones Always before when the pain from the gallstones had got too bad she'd had an operation. definition - an abnormal stone-like mass, usually of cholesterol, formed in the gallbladder or bile passages. Always before when the pain from the stone-like masses had got too bad she'd had an operation.
daguerrotypes Some faded daguerrotypes of children who by now must have children and grandchildren of their own. definition - a picture made by this process. Some faded pictures, made by certain processes, of children who by now must have children and grandchildren of their own.
implicitly "All these tests and tubes," said Tante Jans, who believed in them implicitly, "what do they really prove?" definition -implied strongly, rather than expressly stated; unwaveringly. "All these tests and tubes," said Tante Jans, who believed in them unwaveringly, "what do they really prove?"
reprovingly "Corrie!" said Betsie reprovingly. "Your skirt!"
definition - todisapprove ofstrongly, or to criticize or correct, esp. gently. "Corrie!" said Betsie disapprovingly. "Your skirt!"
infinitesimal Father was bent over the shoulder of the newest apprentice, deftly selecting an infinitesimal part from the array before them on the workbench. definition - indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute. Father was bent over the shoulder of the newest apprentice, deftly selecting an exceedingly small part from the array before them on the workbench. Clare - good job. Don't forget to rewrite the original sentence - using your newfound definition - but not changing the meaning of the sentence.
Mrs. M : < )
Good job of making the corrections. 4/26
Catherine Zastrow-
Itinerant- (adj)Traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty or (n) One who travels from place to place.
Resplendent-Splendid or dazzling in appearance; brilliant.
Reveling-To take great pleasure or delight or to engage in uproarious festivities; make merry.
Careened-To lurch or swerve while in motion. Or it is to rush headlong or carelessly; career.
Perpetually-Lasting for eternity or continuing or lasting for an indefinitely long time.
“Hans was passing cakes in the back room, as was Toos in the front, wearing the nearest thing to a smile that her perpetually downdrawn lips would permit.”
Deliberate-Done with or marked by full consciousness of the nature and effects; intentional.
“Willem believed it was part of a deliberate and largescale move against Jews;…”
Scrimped-To economize severely. To be excessively sparing with or of. To cut or make too small or scanty.
“He scrimped and saved enough money to build a home for elderly Jews in Wilversum…”
Humdrum- Lacking variety or excitement; dull. See Synonyms at boring, dull or monotonous talk or routine.
“I didn’t know it then—nor, indeed, that there was any new future to prepare for in a life as humdrum and predictable as mine.”
Personage-A character in a literary work or a person or a person of distinction.
“A deep-rimmed brown bonnet with a cluster of lavender velvet roses proclaimed in every line the personage who had picked it out.”
Guilder-The primary unit of currency in the Netherlands before the adoption of the euro.
“…--and indeed every Saturday Father faithfully paid her one guilder.”
Deceit-The act or practice of deceiving; deception. A stratagem; a trick. The quality of being deceitful; falseness.
“Father, who was incapable of practicing deceit or even recognizing it, took a long and earnest sniff.”
Zeal-Enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal and tireless diligence in its furtherance.
“Tante Jans seized the pot and glared into it with righteous zeal.”
Idly-Avoiding work or employment; lazy.
“What kind of hiding place, I wondered idly as I watched Father’s brown beard rise and fall with the words.”
Bewilderment- A situation of perplexity or confusion; a tangle.
“At last, Amsterdam, even bigger than Haarlem, with its bewilderment of strange streets and canals.”
Contradicting-To assert or express the opposite of (a statement).
“…; and the two of them would be off, arguing, comparing, interrupting, contradicting—reveling in each other’s company.”
Catherine-good start. You have definitions and, for the most part, sentences from the book that contain the words chosen. The last part of the assignment needs to be completed. Look at #5 and #7 on the homework page. Each entry is not always complete. 4/26
Ali Walton:
CHAPTER 1:
hyacinths:
How could I foresee as I zipped around the corner, that one summer day, when the hyacinths in the commercial bulb flats nearby were ripe and brown.......
DEF: a bulbous plant
How could I foresee as I zipped around the corner, that one summer day, when the bulbous plants were ripe and brown....
Ponderous:
He sank his ponderous bulk into a chair beside father......
DEF: of great weight; heavy; massive. This is the definition for bulk - it is correct, but I think you want the definition for ponderous here.
He sank his massive bulk into a chair beside father..... What about the word 'ponderous'? That is the word you are defining.
Bulk:
He sank his ponderous bulk into a chair beside father....
DEF: the body of a living creature.
He sank his ponderous body into a chair beside father....
Chorales:
People called out requests- popular songs, selections from Bach chorales, hymns....
DEF: a group of singers specializing in singing church music; choir.
People called out requests- popular songs, selections from Bach's choir, hymns....
Scrimped:
He had scrimped and saved enough money to build a home for elderly Jews....
DEF: limit, to keep on short allowance; provide sparingly for
He had limited/stinted (vocab word)!!! and saved enough money to build a house for elderly Jews....
CHAPTER 2:
Pernicious:
Betsie had been born with pernicious anemia.
DEF:causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful
Betsie had been born with harmful anemia.
Anemia:
Betsie had been born with pernicious anemia.
DEF: a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness
Betsie had been born with a harmful reduced number of red blood cells.
Millinery:
The van Dyvers owned the millinery shop two doors down.
DEF: women's hats and other articles made or sold by milliners.
The van Dyvers owned the women's hat store two doors down.
Buttonhook:
"I know!" I said as the buttonhook in Betsie's swift fingers....
DEF: a small, usuallymetalhook for pullingbuttonsthroughbuttonholes, as on gloves,dresses,breeches
"I know!" I said as the metal hook in Betsie's swift fingers....
Baleful:
And with a baleful glance at the big brown hat....
DEF: full of menacing or malign influences
And with a menacing glance at the big brown hat....
CHAPTER 3:
Threadbare:
....young men in coats with twice-turned collars and threadbare cuffs.
DEF: havingthenap worn off so as to lay bare the threads of thewarp and woof, as a fabric, garment
....young men in coats with twice-turned collars and cuffs that have the nap worn off so bad that the threads lay bare.
Perched:
Perched beside me on the bed....
DEF: tosettle orrest in some elevated position
Rested in an elevated position beside me on the bed.
Tuberculosis:
Tante Bep had tuberculosis.
DEF: this disease when affectingthe lungs; pulmonary phthisis;consumption
Tante Bep had a disease that affects the lungs.
Mementos:
There were the few pathetic mementos of thirty years....
DEF: an object or itemthat serves toremind one of a person,past event, etc.; keepsake; souvenir
There were the few pathetic keepsakes of thirty years....
Paraphernalia:
Tante Jans who loved medical paraphernalia of every kind....
DEF: equipment,apparatus, or furnishing used inornecessary for a particularactivity
Tante Jans who loved medical equipment of every kind....
Nice job, Ali. Well-chosen words, clearly defined, and used correctly in the rewritten sentences. 4/26
THE HIDING PLACE :
Clare O'Malley -
CHAPTER 1spinsters
How could we have guessed as we sat there - two middle aged spinsters and an old man - that in place of memories we were about to be given adventure such as we had never dreamed of?
definition - a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
How could we have guessed as we sat there - two middle aged unmarried women and an old man - that in place of memories we were about to be given adventure such as we had never dreamed of?
woebegone
I remembered the day six or seven years earlier when he had first come into the shop, so ragged and woebegone that I had assumed that he was one of the beggars who had the Beje marked as a sure meal.
definition - beset with woe; affected by woe, esp. in appearance. I remembered the day six or seven years earlier when he had first come into the shop, so ragged and beset with woe that I had assumed that he was one of the beggars who had the Beje marked as a sure meal.
itinerant
...the itinerant clock mender who trudged on foot throughout the land...
definition - traveling from place to place, esp. on a circuit, as a minister (ministering), judge, or sales person. ...the ministering clock mender who trudged on foot throughout the land...
threshold
...and was wheeling it over the threshold when Betsie's voice reached me, soft but firm.
definition - the entrance to a house or building.
...and was wheeling it over the entrance of the house when Betsie's voice reached me, soft but firm.
starched
...a block of identical attached houses with white curtains and potted plants in the windows.
definition - a commercial preparation of this substance used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering.
...a block of identical attached houses with white, stiffened curtains and potted plants in the windows.
CHAPTER 2reverently
Betsie lifted it reverently from the box and held it to the patch of light that...
definition - feeling, exhibiting, or characterized by reverence; deeply respectful.
Betsie lifted it respectfully from the box and held it to the patch of light that...
hereafter
Tante Jans believed that our welfare in the hereafter depended on how much we could accomplish here on earth.
definition - after this in time or order; at some future time; farther along, afterlife.
Tante Jans believed that our welfare in the afterlife depended on how much we could accomplish here on earth.
partitioned
For sleep she partitioned off a cubicle from her writing room just large enough to hold a bed.
definition - an interior wall or barrier dividing a room, area of a building, enclosure, etc., into separate areas.
For sleep she separated off a cubicle from her writing room just large enough to hold a bed.
perpetual
Tante Bep, with her perpetual, disapproving scowl, was the oldest of the aunts and the one we children liked least.
definition - continuing or enduring forever; everlasting.
Tante Bep, with her everlasting, disapproving scowl, was the oldest of the aunts and the one we children liked least.
remonstrated
"And yet, Jans," Father remonstrated gently, "medicine has prolonged many a life."
definition - to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval.
"And yet, Jans," Father remonstrated gently, "medicine has prolonged many a life."
Is this changed?
CHAPTER 3
gallstones
Always before when the pain from the gallstones had got too bad she'd had an operation.
definition - an abnormal stone-like mass, usually of cholesterol, formed in the gallbladder or bile passages.
Always before when the pain from the stone-like masses had got too bad she'd had an operation.
daguerrotypes
Some faded daguerrotypes of children who by now must have children and grandchildren of their own.
definition - a picture made by this process.
Some faded pictures, made by certain processes, of children who by now must have children and grandchildren of their own.
implicitly
"All these tests and tubes," said Tante Jans, who believed in them implicitly, "what do they really prove?"
definition - implied strongly, rather than expressly stated; unwaveringly.
"All these tests and tubes," said Tante Jans, who believed in them unwaveringly, "what do they really prove?"
reprovingly
"Corrie!" said Betsie reprovingly. "Your skirt!"
definition - to disapprove of strongly, or to criticize or correct, esp. gently.
"Corrie!" said Betsie disapprovingly. "Your skirt!"
infinitesimal
Father was bent over the shoulder of the newest apprentice, deftly selecting an infinitesimal part from the array before them on the workbench.
definition - indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute.
Father was bent over the shoulder of the newest apprentice, deftly selecting an exceedingly small part from the array before them on the workbench.
Clare - good job. Don't forget to rewrite the original sentence - using your newfound definition - but not changing the meaning of the sentence.
Mrs. M : < )
Good job of making the corrections. 4/26
Catherine Zastrow-
Itinerant- (adj)Traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty or (n) One who travels from place to place.
Resplendent- Splendid or dazzling in appearance; brilliant.
Reveling-To take great pleasure or delight or to engage in uproarious festivities; make merry.
Careened-To lurch or swerve while in motion. Or it is to rush headlong or carelessly; career.
Perpetually- Lasting for eternity or continuing or lasting for an indefinitely long time.
“Hans was passing cakes in the back room, as was Toos in the front, wearing the nearest thing to a smile that her perpetually downdrawn lips would permit.”
Deliberate- Done with or marked by full consciousness of the nature and effects; intentional.
“Willem believed it was part of a deliberate and largescale move against Jews;…”
Scrimped- To economize severely. To be excessively sparing with or of. To cut or make too small or scanty.
“He scrimped and saved enough money to build a home for elderly Jews in Wilversum…”
Humdrum- Lacking variety or excitement; dull. See Synonyms at boring, dull or monotonous talk or routine.
“I didn’t know it then—nor, indeed, that there was any new future to prepare for in a life as humdrum and predictable as mine.”
Personage- A character in a literary work or a person or a person of distinction.
“A deep-rimmed brown bonnet with a cluster of lavender velvet roses proclaimed in every line the personage who had picked it out.”
Guilder-The primary unit of currency in the Netherlands before the adoption of the euro.
“…--and indeed every Saturday Father faithfully paid her one guilder.”
Deceit- The act or practice of deceiving; deception. A stratagem; a trick. The quality of being deceitful; falseness.
“Father, who was incapable of practicing deceit or even recognizing it, took a long and earnest sniff.”
Zeal- Enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal and tireless diligence in its furtherance.
“Tante Jans seized the pot and glared into it with righteous zeal.”
Idly-Avoiding work or employment; lazy.
“What kind of hiding place, I wondered idly as I watched Father’s brown beard rise and fall with the words.”
Bewilderment- A situation of perplexity or confusion; a tangle.
“At last, Amsterdam, even bigger than Haarlem, with its bewilderment of strange streets and canals.”
Contradicting- To assert or express the opposite of (a statement).
“…; and the two of them would be off, arguing, comparing, interrupting, contradicting—reveling in each other’s company.”
Catherine-good start. You have definitions and, for the most part, sentences from the book that contain the words chosen. The last part of the assignment needs to be completed. Look at #5 and #7 on the homework page. Each entry is not always complete. 4/26
Ali Walton:
CHAPTER 1:
hyacinths:
How could I foresee as I zipped around the corner, that one summer day, when the hyacinths in the commercial bulb flats nearby were ripe and brown.......
DEF: a bulbous plant
How could I foresee as I zipped around the corner, that one summer day, when the bulbous plants were ripe and brown....
Ponderous:
He sank his ponderous bulk into a chair beside father......
DEF: of great weight; heavy; massive. This is the definition for bulk - it is correct, but I think you want the definition for ponderous here.
He sank his massive bulk into a chair beside father..... What about the word 'ponderous'? That is the word you are defining.
Bulk:
He sank his ponderous bulk into a chair beside father....
DEF: the body of a living creature.
He sank his ponderous body into a chair beside father....
Chorales:
People called out requests- popular songs, selections from Bach chorales, hymns....
DEF: a group of singers specializing in singing church music; choir.
People called out requests- popular songs, selections from Bach's choir, hymns....
Scrimped:
He had scrimped and saved enough money to build a home for elderly Jews....
DEF: limit, to keep on short allowance; provide sparingly for
He had limited/stinted (vocab word)!!! and saved enough money to build a house for elderly Jews....
CHAPTER 2:
Pernicious:
Betsie had been born with pernicious anemia.
DEF:causing insidious harm or ruin; ruinous; injurious; hurtful
Betsie had been born with harmful anemia.
Anemia:
Betsie had been born with pernicious anemia.
DEF: a quantitative deficiency of the hemoglobin, often accompanied by a reduced number of red blood cells and causing pallor, weakness, and breathlessness
Betsie had been born with a harmful reduced number of red blood cells.
Millinery:
The van Dyvers owned the millinery shop two doors down.
DEF: women's hats and other articles made or sold by milliners.
The van Dyvers owned the women's hat store two doors down.
Buttonhook:
"I know!" I said as the buttonhook in Betsie's swift fingers....
DEF: a small, usually metal hook for pulling buttons throughbuttonholes, as on gloves, dresses, breeches
"I know!" I said as the metal hook in Betsie's swift fingers....
Baleful:
And with a baleful glance at the big brown hat....
DEF: full of menacing or malign influences
And with a menacing glance at the big brown hat....
CHAPTER 3:
Threadbare:
....young men in coats with twice-turned collars and threadbare cuffs.
DEF: having the nap worn off so as to lay bare the threads of thewarp and woof, as a fabric, garment
....young men in coats with twice-turned collars and cuffs that have the nap worn off so bad that the threads lay bare.
Perched:
Perched beside me on the bed....
DEF: to settle or rest in some elevated position
Rested in an elevated position beside me on the bed.
Tuberculosis:
Tante Bep had tuberculosis.
DEF: this disease when affecting the lungs; pulmonary phthisis;consumption
Tante Bep had a disease that affects the lungs.
Mementos:
There were the few pathetic mementos of thirty years....
DEF: an object or item that serves to remind one of a person,past event, etc.; keepsake; souvenir
There were the few pathetic keepsakes of thirty years....
Paraphernalia:
Tante Jans who loved medical paraphernalia of every kind....
DEF: equipment,apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particularactivity
Tante Jans who loved medical equipment of every kind....
Nice job, Ali. Well-chosen words, clearly defined, and used correctly in the rewritten sentences. 4/26